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DynamoDB Cookbook

By : Tanmay Deshpande
Book Image

DynamoDB Cookbook

By: Tanmay Deshpande

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (18 chapters)
DynamoDB Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Listing tables using the AWS SDK for PHP


Now, let's understand how to list all the DynamoDB tables using the AWS SDK for PHP.

Getting ready

You can use the IDE of your choice to code these recipes.

How to do it…

In this recipe, we will learn how to list the tables we created earlier using the AWS SDK for PHP:

  1. Create an instance of the DynamoDB client and invoke the listTables method:

    $client = DynamoDbClient::factory(array(
        'profile' => 'default',
        'region' => 'us-west-2'  
    ));
    $response = $client->listTables();
  2. Iterate over the list to get the details of the tables:

    foreach ($response['TableNames'] as $key => $value) {
           echo "$value" . PHP_EOL;
     }
  3. The AWS SDK for PHP also provides the option to limit the number of tables that are retrieved, and it supports pagination as well. If you have a lot of tables created, then you can fetch the results in the paginated format, as follows:

    $tablesArray = array();
    do {
      $response = $client->listTables(array(
        'Limit' => 5,...